• Water

Delaware Poultry Plant Agrees to Pay $205 Million After Polluting Groundwater for Years

• clean water
• drinking water
• ground water
• nitrates
• pollution
• wastewater

One of the largest chicken producers in the country — the family-owned Mountaire Corp. — agreed to pay $205 million to settle two court cases that its Delaware plants contaminated water wells, waterways, and the surrounding air with improperly disposed of wastewater.  

Why this Matters: Groundwater contamination affects communities across the country. In Orange County and Oakland, California groundwater polluted with industrial waste is seeping into sources of drinking water.

• Water

Toxins from Decades of Manufacturing Contaminate Orange County’s Water

• drinking water
• groundwater
• PFAS
• safe drinking water
• Superfund
• water wells

By Natasha Lasky, ODP Staff Writer Over 70% of the drinking water in Orange County, California comes from groundwater. But historic manufacturing nearby has polluted it due to the improper discarding of toxic chemicals. The LA Times reports that there are three major cleanup projects involving groundwater beneath 22 Californian cities, including Anaheim, Santa Ana, […]

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Tampa Toxic Wastewater Reservoir On Brink of Collapse

• polluters
• toxic pollution
• wastew

On Saturday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for Manatee County, Florida as a wastewater reservoir at the Piney Point facility was on the verge of collapsing and causing a catastrophic situation.  As the New York Times reported, the reservoir holds nearly 400 million gallons of wastewater from a former phosphate mine […]

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Georgia Unanimously Wins Water Feud with Florida In Supreme Court

• ecosystem
• Florida
• Georgia
• overfishing
• oyster
• Supreme Court
• wildlife

The Supreme Court handed the state of Georgia an overwhelming victory yesterday in a long-brewing water feud with the state of Florida.   In the end, it boiled (bad pun) down to Florida’s inability to show its “injury” could be remedied if it received more water. 

Why This Matters:  Florida was its own worst enemy in the case.

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Consumer Reports Says “Don’t Drink That Water” To More Than One Third of Americans

• arsenic
• cancer
• clean water
• Forever Chemicals
• lead
• PFAS
• pipe
• safe drinking water
• waste water

By Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer Having a glass of clean, safe water should be as easy as turning on the tap. But that’s not what a Consumer Reports/The Guardian US investigation of tap water nationwide found. More than a third of the water they sampled had “concerning” levels of PFAS, a class of lab-created […]

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Interior Gives Portion of Missouri River Back to MHA Nation

• Department of Interior
• indigenous communities
• MHA Nation

Our river and our waters are our home. The Missouri River will continue to be home for our future generations.#OurRiverOurHome pic.twitter.com/gbMlQVPEdC — MHA Nation (@MHANation1825) January 14, 2021 by Natasha Lasky, ODP Staff Writer The Interior Department has returned jurisdiction over a portion of the Missouri River to the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara (MHA) Nation, […]